Neasa Hourigan (Dublin Central, Green Party)
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179. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide the overall national radiology waiting lists by hospital and scan type (details supplied) by quarter in each of the years 2019 to 2022, respectively. [3589/23]

Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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The requested diagnostic waiting list data is outlined in the documents attached, which sets out waiting list data for all Quarters from 2019 to 2022 for CT, MRI and Ultrasound. The HSE advises that, at present, further diagnostic scans (including cholangiopancreatography, electroencephalogram, angiogram, and bone scan), are not yet captured.

The HSE advises that a pilot project commenced in 2016 by the HSE Acute Hospitals Division to progress the collection of national radiology waiting list data. The project has been supported by the Radiology Clinical Care Programme and has involved key stakeholders across the system including the National Integrated Medical Imaging System (NIMIS) Team, Hospital Groups, and the support of the National Treatment Purchase Fund (NTPF) for data collection and data management expertise.

The information that is currently being collected is presently being tested and validated at hospital, hospital group and national level and as such should not be used/reported without the context of the caveats set out below:

- Data is subject to inclusions and exclusions which are documented in the Data Profile Document. This document is available from Acute Operations and has been circulated to all Hospital Groups.

- Data contains urgent, routine and surveillance/planned activity which is currently not broken down in detail, as such this includes surveillance/planned activity which may not be exceeding planned date.

- Data is still undergoing validation at Hospital and Hospital Group level.

- Data does not take into account local nuances at site level (Site profile developed to support understanding of same).

- The purpose of this aggregate data is to provide a National Level overview of the number of patients waiting for modalities of CT, MRI and Ultrasound.

- This report is not intended to be used for the active management of hospital diagnostics waiting list, local reports and mechanisms should continue to be used for the management of diagnostics waiting lists at hospital level.

Neasa Hourigan (Dublin Central, Green Party)
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180. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons who were waiting for an urgent colonoscopy by waiting time period for each quarter in each of the years 2019 to 2022, respectively. [3590/23]

Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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As this is a service matter, I have asked the HSE to respond to the deputy directly, as soon as possible.

Neasa Hourigan (Dublin Central, Green Party)
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181. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons who were waiting for a colonoscopy through the BowelScreen programme by waiting time period for each quarter in each of the years 2019 to 2022, respectively. [3591/23]

Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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As this is a service matter, it has been referred to the Health Service Executive for attention and direct reply to the Deputy.